New Leaf mould bin

Hi, Happy New Year one and all, I've been to the plot a couple of times this January and it's grim and muddy. All you have to do is step out of the car and you're covered in mud, what's that about? Anyway I managed to scoop out all of last years leaf mould and spread it on the gourd frame bed and in it's place I made a bigger bin for the many thousands of leaves I manically collected this Autumn. Well I say a bin, it's more like a leaf bank. I'll put a front on it by weaving some hazel together like I did with the back but it'll do for now.

Leaf mould

Last autumn I made a leafmould bin with chicken wire and a few stakes. I collected bags of leaves left by the council on the roadside, must have looked a bit crazy but hey everyone's used to it by now. Actually most of the leaves were from the London Plane trees that so elegantly grace so many of our streets here in sunny North London. I've been told that they take longer to rot down due to their robust nature but you have to work with what nature provides so I tipped them all in, fishing out unwanted rubbish, sweet wrappers and the like. I stood on it a few times too to get more in, covered it with a carpet and forgot about it... until now. Check it out.